Wits Business School

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Wits Business School is the graduate school of business administration of the University of the Witwatersrand, one of the top tertiary institutes in Africa.
The School offers a variety of postgraduate academic programmes and executive education programmes as well as weekly public seminars. WBS also designs tailor-made, in-company programmes, partnering with client organisations to develop... management capacity. With a full suite of programmes on offer, WBS delivers innovative, transformative, and immersive learning experiences using generative thinking methodologies.
The School’s aim is to deliver leaders who can fashion the future of Africa and raise the values-bar on how business is done on the continent. Learning is therefore relevant to the challenges and opportunities that we face on this continent, providing students with a deep understanding of the complexities of doing business in Africa within a global context.
WBS has an extensive Management Library, 24-hour meeting rooms and Africa’s largest Case Study Centre, housing over 200 real-life cases that bring relevant business challenges into the classroom.
The main campus is in Parktown and our satellite campus is in Braamfontein, both in Johannesburg, the vibrant, commercial hub of the continent and offers a modern learning environment built on the Harvard School of Business ‘horseshoe’ format.
From the students and faculty to our alumni and friends, as a collective, we make a substantial positive impact on the world around us. So when you decide to join Wits Business School, you decide on becoming a future leader, in both business and in society.
As a student of WBS, you become part of a broader WBS community of active and innovative changemakers that grow beyond themselves. On graduating, this will only strengthen as you become part of a network of WBS alumni that spans every industry across the globe, a network that has been forged for half a century.
WBS is accredited by a number of leading international organisations, attesting to the high regard a WBS degree holds in the business world. We have accreditations from the Association of MBAs (AMBA), the Global Admissions Council (GMAC) and the Partnership in International Management (PIM). The school is also a founding member of the South African Business School Association (SABSA).
Many of our graduates hold senior positions in organisations both locally and abroad. Together with Wits University, we are ranked 32nd internationally in the employment of alumni in top executive positions. WBS has also graduated the most MBAs in Africa – over 6 800 and counting.
Wits Business school is located in the heart of the most vibrant commercial hub of Africa. We have no doubt that spending time in this learning environment, in a vibrant city surrounded by exceptional people, will provide you with the foundation for an extraordinary life. We see the relationship with you not as a transaction, but as a partnership, one of lifelong learning and holistic development. Masterclasses, short course, alumni colloquiums, public lectures and networking events form part of this post-graduation commitment to you.
WBS holds the largest academic institution case centre in Africa, bringing real-life business challenges and processes into the classroom for analysis and debate. The WBS Case Centre has developed more than 200 cases on diverse businesses and industries, from fried chicken to gold mining, and puts students in a time and place these companies faced some of their biggest turning points.
Research is one of the School’s four pillars of excellence and a core component of the graduation criteria for students. We pursue high-impact, forward-thinking, relevant research for business, society and humanity. Our vision is to be recognised as one of the top 50 research-based business schools in the world. Our classrooms have the latest audio-visual equipment and are based on the Harvard Business School’s horseshoe format to stimulate interaction between students and lecturers. We have smaller group meeting rooms available 24-hours a day so that students can work collaboratively on organisation-based projects.
Our WBS Management Library holds over 15 000 volumes, subscribes to over 200 database journals and a wealth of e-content. We have a well-equipped computer laboratory, high-speed internet and Wi-Fi throughout the campus. Our on-site canteen caters for all needs, especially those numerous cups of coffee that fuel the academic debate.
By 2020, being recognised as the African business school of choice by students, employers, business, civil society, government and labour, while maintaining a fearlessly critical outlook, driven by a sense of professionalism, ethics and integrity.
The School aims to create the academic, research, leadership and character excellence conditions that nurture graduates who grow and achieve beyond themselves as Africa"s leaders, in business and in society. WBS" intention is also to build bridges - between business, government, civil society and organised labour- to address the issues critical to Africa fulfilling its economic destiny.
The WBS strategic plan is firmly rooted in the belief that the school can play a significant role in Africa as the continent undergoes economic regeneration and unprecedented expansion.
It recognises that tomorrow’s African leaders will need a different leadership toolbox and skillset. This requires reimagining graduate business education and graduating leaders with the capacity to grow and achieve beyond themselves.
Our portfolio of programmes is built on four pillars of excellence – academic, research, leadership and character – to prepare leaders to excel in delivering business results, social responsibility results and public leadership.
The strategy envisages that by 2020, WBS will be recognised as the most admired business school in Africa by the world’s leading business publications, have the most diverse pool of applicants of any business school on the continent, be recognised as one of the top 50 research-based business school in the world and be at the centre of critical discourse about the economic, social and public policy future of Africa.